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Disaster Relief and Preparedness
Disasters impact not only our physical environment, but also the mental health and resilience of our communities. This training explores the diverse ways disasters affect individuals and providers, offering tools such as psychological first aid, long-term recovery strategies, and methods for fostering community resilience. Designed for healthcare providers, social workers, educators, and frontline staff, this session emphasizes practical skills for both professional and personal use. This workshop will equip participants with strategies to better support themselves and the communities they serve during times of crisis.
ACT and FACT Transitions in Care
This training will focus on clients who transition from Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) to a lower level of care. Participants will examine the layered issues that underlie these transitions from an intensive program to a less intensive program, from a graduation that resulted in a client achieving their goal(s) to a disengagement, where a client may experience an ambivalent separation from the ACT program. Participants will review existing decision-making tools and readiness scales that not only inform transitions from ACT but also address provider concerns ...
FACT Training Series
The FACT training series is offered by our partners, the Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS). This 5-part training series, offered quarterly in live virtual-only format, is available to staff on FACT teams and ACT teams serving justice-involved clients.
Client Outcome Measures and Data Reporting
As part of implementing ACT and FACT, practitioners will complete a Client Outcome Assessment Battery (COAB) with clients when they enroll with the team, every 6 months while they continue to work with the team, and when they discharge from the team. Completing outcome measures helps ensure that ACT and FACT are improving clients’ lives in real and meaningful ways. Measures can also benefit your team’s everyday clinical practice by serving as tools for developing personalized treatment plans and helping the team identify areas where ...
Clinical Supervision Training Series
This training series is intended for current or aspiring clinical supervisors. This training series includes the following two topics, which participants may choose to attend individually or in combination: Core Competencies of Clinical Supervision Clinical Supervision in Difficult Times
Daily Clinical Management in ACT and FACT: Using Operational Practices to Support Clinical Interventions
This training is specifically designed for frontline and administrative behavioral health professionals who are part of Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) teams. Participants will receive a concise overview of the Daily Team Meeting (DTM) process that supports clinical service delivery within the ACT framework. The training will provide an opportunity to develop action-oriented skills focused on team planning, demonstrating how daily clinical management strategies in ACT can enhance and uphold fidelity. Additionally, the training will explore effective skills and best practices for engaging and reinforcing natural supports to promote the growth and well-being of clients facing serious ...
Maximizing ACT and FACT Service Array for Program Effectiveness
Assertive community treatment (ACT) and forensic assertive community treatment (FACT) teams serve as “one-stop treatment shops” that provide a comprehensive array of clinical and supportive services to clients with significant behavioral health concerns and high service needs. Offering a complete array of services within the ACT or FACT team, rather than referring clients to external providers, is critical to ACT and FACT’s effectiveness at increasing clinical stability and promoting community functioning among high-needs clients. This training will introduce the range of services offered by high-fidelity ACT and FACT teams. Participants will learn how embedding evidence-based practices within ACT and FACT can improve clients’ recovery outcomes. The training will also highlight how ...
Provider Wellbeing & Self-Care: Practicing Self-Compassion
This training will highlight the core concepts of self-compassion (self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness), the research-based positive impacts of self-compassion, and what distinguishes self-compassion from other similar concepts. Participants will understand how to define "trying times" on an individual and systemic level, and how these difficult situations can impact our ability to support our wellbeing and the wellbeing of our clients. Participants will learn best practices for applying elements of self-compassion in these challenging scenarios.
Developing and Facilitating Therapeutic Groups in Community Mental Health
Group therapy can be an effective and impactful therapeutic intervention for consumers of community mental health services, providing a space for processing, peer support, and social skills practice. This training will explore both the practicalities of starting and maintaining a group within a community mental health setting, as well as specific evidence-based interventions and modalities that can be used to ensure a group remains helpful and supportive to participants.
Understanding Hoarding Disorder to Enhance Housing Success
This training will provide an overview of the causes and contributing factors related to hoarding disorder. Participants will be introduced to evidence-based approaches for addressing hoarding disorder for clients within a variety of contexts, including those who are housed and unhoused. A trauma informed, harm-reduction approach -` Safety Day’ (Sampson & Yeats, 2015)- for preventing evictions for people experiencing hoarding disorder will also be presented. Participants will explore contextual features of hoarding disorder in order to consider ways to leverage supports and resources effectively.
